Re: [Nolug] sudo rm -rf /

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:47 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> On 02/11/08 18:40, Chris Jones wrote:
> > I would say because it's in memory and not something that the system
> > constantly accesses.
>
> (Why do so many people using gmail always top-post? You'd think
> they were drones who believe IE *is* the intarweb...)
>
> That'd be my guess. Unix doesn't "really" delete open files, so any
> running processes and open files stay in that same state.
>
> > On Feb 11, 2008 5:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> > <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
> >
> > On 02/11/08 17:17, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOjmvWPRvQ
> >
> > And we all know why the WP survived, right?
>
I think the wallpaper stayed because it is cached in RAM and gnome
hasn't told the subsystems and such to reload the image from disk. So
until you did something that caused the image to reload, it should stay
there, right?
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